Marlayna Glynn Brown is an award-winning, best-selling nomadic memoirist, photographer, perfectly awful actress and yogi. Marlayna was born in Las Vegas, Nevada but now lives wherever she lays her head - on a seemingly permanent journey around the world.
Marlayna's works include the trilogy Overlay: A Tale of One Girl's Life in 1970s Las Vegas, City of Angeles, and Big as All Hell and Half of T

Background
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I am a published writer and an award winning photographer. These are the primary ways I communicate my personal experience to humanity.

I'd initially planned on entering the counseling field in my desire to be in service of others. I purchased a Nikon as a congratulatory gift for myself and my world shifted. Rather than living in the one-to-one world of personal counseling, my writing and photography instead led me to engage larger audiences through the mediums of word and film.

I am a passionate communicator. Words, photo, film, yoga, contact improvisation dance, and ecstatic dance are just a few of the ways I send and receive messages from others. My personal mission is to take in and send out new information to tighten the weave of the fabric we humans create. I strive to unite and draw us closer in shared human experience.

Birth Place

Las Vegas, NV US

Accomplishments

April 2013: Overlay receives an award from Next Generation Indie Books in the Overcoming Adversity category.

April 2012: Overlay reaches #1 on Amazon for memoirs and personal transformation categories.

March 2012: My memoir, Overlay, is now available for purchase on Amazon.

January 2012: My photo, "Limbitless Ablution" was a runner up in the Kutoa Travel Photography Competition.

October 2011: My photo, "Limbitless Ablution" won Best in Show at the Fall Gathering of Photographer's art exhibit.

July 2011: My short film, People That do Something is now in distribution.

July 2011: my photo, "Out of the Blue" was chosen as a Los Angeles Convention Center's discoverLosAngeles.com photo of the day.

February 2011: My photo, "Flying Over Austin" won first place in the 2011 Austinography Photo Contest.

My 2009 short film, "People that Do Something" toured film festivals nationally and internationally.

Additional Information

Currently working my way the world through various help/stay arrangements. I love the opportunity to live and work with natives. It's the perfect way to get a real feel for a country and its people.

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